Word: potted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony is that Freaks, the least strenuously hip of the shows, may stand the strongest chance of controversy. The "freaks" of the title are Led Zeppelin-listening Midwestern burnouts who smoke--not just tobacco, of course. "The show will never be pro pot," executive producer Judd Apatow avers. "But every time a kid smokes pot, you can't show him coughing and retching and losing his mind...
Yeah, but the live satellite feed doesn't hurt either. The cameo-in-every-pot strategy makes for what Friedman calls "retail television," forging bonds with camera hounds on site and viewers at home, who, the idea goes, warm to a network they see as embracing folks like themselves. Though some fans have to resort to ruses to win that embrace, as when two men snookered NBC into airing a kiss between them after luring cameras with a sign reading WILL U MARRY ME JILL...
...memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world's reaction to Cambodia is appalling. We need to dig deep into this, investigate it, find out why. It will be a black stain on the entire human race if we allow a man to slaughter uncounted men, women and children, literally setting the development...
Between songs our sympathetic deejays carefully advised listeners not to "do anything you might regret later." Instead, we should "light candles" and "put on a pot of tea." Was this New Age grunge etiquette for the deceased...
...want to watch the trials," an emotional diplomat in a Western embassy says, "because everything that has happened in the past year has been staged. So we know already what will happen. They will blame everything on Pol Pot, on others who are gone. Or on the Americans. Or the King. It will be lies...